C选项:本选项措辞有误。appear是“出现”的意思。在逻辑上,是在地球上看Sunspots时,它们长成黑点(dark spots)的样子,即,可视为黑子(are visible as dark spots)。如果用appear as dark spots,则好像是在说,Sunspots自己就出现为黑点的模样。这显然是不合逻辑的,在太阳上看,Sunspots可不是黑点,而是各种太阳的运动。
remember that you're going to have to use MEANING to figure out what should be compared.
in this sentence, the non-underlined part contains the following elements:
* the comet DID cause a sensation
* IN no other sighting
so ... if you had "[some other sighting] DID", or "IN [something else that caused a sensation]", then that would be an error -- not necessarily a grammar error, but a meaning error because it'd be nonsense.
借用不定式和名词的区别可知,我们需要根据谓语动词date的约束力来判断宾语的补足语是否应该用不定式的形式。显然地,样本是否是3.47bilion这么大年岁,和人类是否追溯这个样本约束关系(你是否勘查这个样本,人家样本都是那么大岁数。当然,如果是你蓄意的编造这个样本的年龄,那就是另外一个故事了)。因此,不能用不定式短语to be 3.47 billion years old。
as opposed to+名词,与……相对立/相反,structures represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, as opposed to a private one,建筑代表了对与私人王国对立的公共王国的承诺。
the opposite of sth,某物的反面,structures represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, opposed of a private one,建筑代表了对与私人王国的反面——公共王国的承诺。
B错在resulting in wood,这个表达有歧义,now costing eight times as much to collect是修饰wood的,在GMAT中,这种修饰需要拿掉再去看,如果拿掉的话,句子就直接变成了resulting in wood,无意义。
B:直接导致wood有问题。
前后两句话是有因果关系的,因此在一开始考虑的时候,我优先把后者降为状语,表示前者的一个结果。如果D没有“ as a result”,而仅仅表示并列,那意思就差很多了,有了这个词组,给两句话套上了一个因果联系,而不是单纯的并列关系。
把until理解错了……
until是指直到某个时刻,讲的是这个时刻之前发生的事儿,不是之后的。。